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  Institut für Lebensmittel- und Ressourcenökonomik

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  Universität Bonn

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Overview:

This PhD project is part of Core Project 6 on "Technology Adaption and impact" of the "Cluster of Excellence" PhenoRob: Robotics and Phenotyping for Sustainable Crop Production" financed by the German Research Foundation.

The core project 6 studies the adoption potential and related impacts of robotics and phenotyping (PhenoRob) technologies on agricultural development, welfare, and the environment at farm and landscape scales. It involves collaboration between agricultural economics and informatics and engages with projects across the whole cluster in order to understand the conditions under which PhenoRob technologies may contribute to sustainable agricultural transformation. As a key long-term output, we develop an agent-based model (ABM) of technology diffusion. The ABM serves as a virtual laboratory that allows us to explore the relevance of alternative economic theories and related empirical phenomena for the diffusion of PhenoRob-type technologies in crop production. The sub-project assesses impacts of novel PhenoRob technologies in German crop production at farm-scale based on bio-economic modeling to inform the ABM.

Contribution

Our group contributes to core project 6 by:

• Systematically collecting data on existing and emerging PhenoRob technologies in German crop production

• Extending the bio-economic farm-scale model FarmDyn based on the collected data on PhenoRob technologies

• Assessing the impact of PhenoRob technologies by simulations across farm samples with "FarmDyn" with regard to various sustainability indicators

Related publications

Kuhn, T., Enders, A., Gaiser, T., Schäfer, D., Srivastava, A., Britz, W. (2019): Coupling crop and bio-economic farm modelling to evaluate the revised fertilization regulations in Germany, Agricultural Systems, Link.

Kuhn, T., Schäfer, D., Holm-Müller, K., Britz, W. (2019): On-farm compliance costs with the EU-Nitrates Directive: A modelling approach for specialized livestock production in northwest Germany, Agricultural Systems 173: 233-243, Link.

Britz W., Lengers, B,.Kuhn, T. and Schäfer, D. (2014): A highly detailed template model for dynamic optimization of farms - FARMDYN, University of Bonn, Institute for Food and Resource Economics, Version September 2016, 147 pages.

Staff working at ILR on the project

Christoph Pahmeyer, PhD student, project realization

Wolfgang Britz, project lead

This work is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC 2070 - 390732324".

Last updated: Saturday, December 21, 2019

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Recent publications

• Can Food Waste Reduction in Europe Help to Increase Food Availability and Reduce Pressure on Natural Resources Globally? (2020) Jafari, Y., Britz, W., Dudu, H., Roson, R., Sartori, M. (2020): Can Food Waste Reduction in Europe Help to Increase Food Availability and Reduce Pressure on Natural Resources Globally?, German Journal of Agricultural Economics 69(2): 143-168
• Brexit: an economy-wide impact assessment on trade, immigration, and foreign direct investment (2020) Jafari, Y., Britz, W. (2020): Brexit: an economy-wide impact assessment on trade, immigration, and foreign direct investment, Empirica 47(1): 17-52
• Estimating a Dual Value Function as a Meta-Model of a Detailed Dynamic Mathematical Programming Model (2020) Seidel, C., Britz, W. (2020): Estimating a Dual Value Function as a Meta-Model of a Detailed Dynamic Mathematical Programming Model, Bio-based and Applied Economic 8(1): 75-99
• Stochastic-dynamic modelling of farm-level investments under uncertainty (2020) Spiegel, A., Britz, W., Finger, R., Djanibekov, U. (2020): Stochastic-dynamic modelling of farm-level investments under uncertainty, Environmental Modeling and Software, available online 18 February 2020
• Coupling crop and bio-economic farm modelling to evaluate the revised fertilization regulations in Germany (2019) Kuhn, T., Enders, A., Gaiser, T., Schäfer, D., Srivastava, A., Britz, W. (2019): Coupling crop and bio-economic farm modelling to evaluate the revised fertilization regulations in Germany , Agricultural Systems
• Greenhouse gas abatement strategies and costs in French dairy production (2019) Mosnier, C., Britz, W., Julliere, T., De Cara, S., Jayet, P.-A., Havlik, P., Frank, S., Mosnier, A. (2019): Greenhouse gas abatement strategies and costs in French dairy production, Journal of Cleaner production (236)
• G-RDEM: A GTAP-Based Recursive Dynamic CGE Model for Long-Term Baseline Generation and Analysis (2019) Britz, W. and Roson, R. (2019): G-RDEM: A GTAP-Based Recursive Dynamic CGE Model for Long-Term Baseline Generation and Analysis, Journal of Global Economic Analysis 4(1): 50-96
• The impacts to food consumers of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (2019) Jafari, Y., Britz, W., Beckman, J. (2019): The impacts to food consumers of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, Bio-based and Appplied Economics, online available 15th March 2019
• On-farm compliance costs with the EU-Nitrates Directive: A modelling approach for specialized livestock production in northwest Germany (2019) Kuhn, T., Schäfer, D., Holm-Müller, K., Britz, W. (2019): On-farm compliance costs with the EU-Nitrates Directive: A modelling approach for specialized livestock production in northwest Germany, Agricultural Systems 173: 233-243
• An economic and environmental assessment of a glyphosate ban for the example of maize production (2019) Boecker, T., Moehring, N., Finger, R., Britz, W. (2019): An economic and environmental assessment of a glyphosate ban for the example of maize production, European Review of Agricultural Economics, available online 5th February 2019
• Econometric mathematical programming: an application to the estimation of costs and risk preferences at farm level (2019) Arata, L., Britz, W. (2019): Econometric mathematical programming: an application to the estimation of costs and risk preferences at farm level, Agricultural Economics, available online 8th January 2019